Selected publications

• The role of Plasmodium V-ATPase in vacuolar physiology and antimalarial drug uptake

  • Alder A, Sanchez CP, Russell MRG, Collinson LM, Lanzer M, Blackman MJ, Gilberger TW, Matz JM
  • Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Jul 25;120(30):e2306420120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2306420120
  • 2023-07-25

• Plasmodium’s bottomless pit: properties and functions of the malaria parasite's digestive vacuole

  • Matz JM
  • Trends Parasitol. 2022 Jul;38(7):525-543. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2022.02.010
  • 2022-03-19

• An apicoplast-resident folate transporter is essential for sporogony of malaria parasites

  • Korbmacher F, Drepper B, Sanderson T, Martin P, Stach T, Maier AG, Matuschewski K, Matz JM
  • Cell Microbiol. 2021 Jan;23(1):e13266. doi: 10.1111/cmi
  • 2021-01-23

• A lipocalin mediates unidirectional heme biomineralization in malaria parasites

  • Matz JM, Drepper B, Blum TB, van Genderen E, Burrell A, Martin P, Stach T, Collinson L, Abrahams JP, Matuschewski K, Blackman MJ
  • Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Jul 14;117(28):16546-16556. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2001153117
  • 2020-07-14

• Plasmodium para-aminobenzoate synthesis and salvage resolve avoidance of folate com­peti­tion and adaptation to host diet

  • Matz JM, Watanabe M, Falade M, Tohge T, Hoefgen R, Matuschewski K
  • Cell Rep. 2019 Jan 8;26(2):356-363.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.12.062
  • 2019-01-08

• An unusual prohibitin regulates malaria parasite mitochondrial membrane potential

  • Matz JM, Goosmann C, Matuschewski K, Kooij TWA
  • Cell Rep. 2018 Apr 17;23(3):756-767. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.03.088
  • 2018-04-17